If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.